Science Ninja Team Gatchaman/YMMV

• Awesome Music: The main theme. WHOAAA! GATCHAMAAAAAAN! GATCHAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
  • Lets Fly from the OVA. LETS FLYYY!!!!
• Macekre: The franchise has been dubbed five times, and only the ADV Films release of the original series didn't had character names and plot points rewritten wholesale.
• Moment of Awesome (Joe's suicide run and heroic sacrifice at the end of the first series. At the edge of the death, with just a week of life, Joe goes on a suicide mission to bring down Galactor once. He survives a horrific torture at the hands of Berg Katse and ends up, before dying, throwing his feather knife into the doomsday machine Berg is using to use to destroy the Earth, stopping it right when the countdown reaches his number "2".
  • ADV Films announcing AND releasing ALL 105 episodes also counts, given the fact that countless fans were fearful that the company would abort the project before it reached the final 20 episodes, which had never ever been dubbed before.
• Real Women Never Wear Dresses: Many people think Jun is just a useless Chick and not as "strong" as modern heroines. Thing is, considering that the series was written in The Seventies, Jun's character was actually revolutionary by that time's standards, and she and other girls like Francoise/003 and Sayaka Yumi were among the first Action Girls of oldschool anime, setting the precedent for many other more action-oriented ladies in anime/manga as a whole. Not to mention her True Companions treated her with respect and care (with the exception of Junpei, and he still didn't go that far) and they stuck by her side whenever she needed it.
• Sequelitis: The two follow up series, Gatchaman II and Gatchaman Fighter are generally regarded as inferior to the original for various reasons.
• The Scrappy: Kentaro Washio's treatment of his son Ken makes him rather unpopular among fans.
• Title Confusion: Many viewers referred to Battle of the Planets as "G-Force", even before the version that was actually called G-Force came out (and causing further confusion).